AUBURN HILLS -- The Detroit Pistons and the Come Together Foundation awarded a luxury automobile to 2013 Game Changer of the Year Alex Zayid of Commerce Township, and $25,000 grants to three other volunteers to fund their non-profits, after a year-long effort to recognize and reward key community volunteers statewide.

Zayid received a 2013 Chrysler 300C John Varvatos Limited Edition.

He has raised more than $20,000 for the American Cancer Society in southeast Michigan through his Youth for he Fight Organization and was the top vote-getter from more than 600,000 online fan votes, according to the Pistons and the Come Together Foundation.

The $25,000 Impact Award grants went to Veronika Scott of the Empowerment Plan, a Detroit-based non-profit that employs homeless women in the production of coat-sleeping bags which in turn are distributed to the homeless; Don Wackerle of Camp Fish Tales, who started a summer camp for those with special physical needs; and Delashea Strawder of Mosaic Youth Theatre, who is director of music programs for that organization's Main Stage training program.

"The Game Changer of the Year and Impact Award winners have done outstanding work in the community and the Pistons and Come Together Foundation want to recognize these often unsung heroes," Dennis Mannion, CEO and president of Palace Sports & Entertainment, said in a press release.